{"id":680,"date":"2015-11-30T17:44:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/shekhinahcalling\/?p=680"},"modified":"2015-11-30T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:48:52","slug":"imagine-a-flying-river-rainforest-deforestation-and-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shekhinahcalling\/2015\/11\/30\/imagine-a-flying-river-rainforest-deforestation-and-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine a Flying River: Rainforest Deforestation and Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Today I came across this photo essay\u00a0on NPR<\/a> about the deforestation of the Amazon. It\u2019s worth clicking through if you\u2019re able to.<\/p>\n

We tend to think of issues like deforestation as having clear bad guys, like the logging company in Fern Gully. And yeah, some people behave much better than others. But what\u2019s striking about this story is the way ordinary people are sucked into destructive behavior:<\/p>\n

Maria Leonilda Mattara is a subsistence farmer in Rondonia\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

She is trying to eke out a living with her daughter and two granddaughters, clearing the land with the hope of turning it into pasture and raising cattle. That\u2019s where the money is. Unfortunately, though, she says, the soil isn\u2019t very good here, where rain forest once stood.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Mattara burns trees. She says the ash will make the land fertile again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou either burn or you starve,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s a potent reminder that, as much as we\u2019d love to have clear enemies that look nothing like us, destructive systems like capitalism are ingrained in all of us. It\u2019s not even that we should feel guilty for being complicit\u2013we just need to acknowledge the pervasiveness of the these systems before we can realistically dismantle them. Want to know what ideas like guaranteed basic income have to do with climate change? Well, just look around you.<\/p>\n

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Click here<\/a> to follow Asa West on Facebook, and click here<\/a> to book a tarot reading with her!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Featured image credit Frank Vessen, via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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